Former Wendy's Chief Executive Roland Smith to Lead Office Retailer

Office Depot Inc. hired grocery executive Roland Smith as its new chairman and chief executive, crossing one major task off its to-do list a week after it closed a $1.2 billion merger with peer OfficeMax Inc.

The food industry veteran has a longer list than usual of steps to integrate the two companies, because key decisions like where it would be based and how it would be led were intentionally put off until antitrust authorities...